Wednesday, July 30, 2014

Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd is revolutionizing
the way users interact with their mobile devices with the new and exciting
Samsung Galaxy S5. Imagine having all
this technology at your fingertips. It thus becomes clear why the Samsung
Galaxy S5 is the phone of choice, offering a host of possibilities to its users

Those
that have chosen the Samsung Galaxy S5 experience will definitely be getting
best of both worlds in this smartphone that doubles as personal smartphone that
wears a suit! It’s no surprise that Samsung Galaxy S5 users have caught on to
this smart device since it’s unveiling. Its customer-driven response is marked
by Samsung’s impeccable attention to detail.

With
dimensionsof142 x 72.5 x 8.1 mm,
the Galaxy S5 is svelte and slim. It fits perfectly in the palm of your
hands. Modern, sophisticated and
boasting one of the sleekest and freshest designs you’ll ever get your hands
on, its Super AMOLED Full HD 5´1” screen is great for watching videos and apps
in extraordinary quality.

Textured
with tiny perforations, the phone’s back panel not only gives it that unique
look that sets it apart from others but also makes for greater comfort in the
user’s grip. Choose from any of our four
eye-catching colours:

1.Black
and white

2.Blue

3.Electric
Gold

Despite
these fancy accouterments, its IP67 certification means your Samsung Galaxy S5
will be safe from Water and Dust, making it virtually impervious to the
elements.

The
unbeatable 16 Megapixel Camera with built-in auto-focus that snaps into shape
in a mere 0.3 seconds makes the Samsung S5, hands down, the world’s fastest
camera on a mobile device. But it doesn’t end there! Selective Focus is an interesting feature of
this powerful Camera; you keep the point of focus only in that part of the
image that you want while blurring the rest. At no point do you leave the HDR
mode integrated into the camera’s software that helps you improve the lighting
in your treasured photos and videos.

Still,
you’ve gotta keep your Business and Personal lives separate. Samsung
understands. That’s why they’ve build a fingerprint scanner that doubles as your ID for unblocking your smartphone and making Mobile payments. After all, no one
can steal your Biometric Identity and your fingerprint is as secure as it gets.

An
even deeper side to its security is that it can easily slip into theKids Mode that’s a sandbox for them to
play. Samsung Galaxy S5 has adapted a kid-centric user interface the user
interface loaded with entertaining and educational games.

And
as if that’s not enough, SamsungGalaxy
S5 Emergency Mode can help you if your being kidnapped. Should the unfortunate
situation befall you and you feel in danger, at the push of button, it will transmit
a help message to your emergency contacts structured as follows:

The
new Samsung Galaxy S5 comes fully loaded with features to help you stay at your
fittest. If health and wellness are your
priorities, then you’re in good hands with the Samsung Galaxy S5’s enhanced 3.0
S Health Tool:

1.Podometer

2.Diet

3.Exercise
records

4.Heart
rate monitor

The
Fitness Tracker helps you follow-up on your routine while you monitor and
manage your every step to achieving your wellness goals. With tools like the
3.0 S Health Tool Samsung Galaxy S5 is sure to become your best ally as you get
to your wellness goals.

And
it’s fast on Wireless Broadband Internet too! It’s compatible with 5th
generation 802.11ac Wi-Fi, 2x2 MIMO and a standard category 4 LTE. MIMO lets you combine your Wi-Fi connections
for faster data transfer. The most impressive feature is the built-in Download
Booster technology which allows you to use 4G LTE and Wi-Fi, boosting Internet
performance online. Overall, the Samsung Galaxy S5 caters fully to the needs of
the user with faster and more efficient connectivity.

It
does this by deactivating less essential apps and just dealing with Calls and
Text Messages. The Samsung Galaxy then puts on a Suite and Tie in a Black and
White Affair on screen, reducing power consumption and resulting in an
incredible additional 10 hours of Internet surfing and 12 hours of video
playback!

With
a long and proven history of innovation, Samsung delivers yet again to its
customers, setting itself apart as leaders in technology. Like what you see
here?

Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd is revolutionizing
the way users interact with their mobile devices with the new and exciting
Samsung Galaxy S5. Imagine having all
this technology at your fingertips. It thus becomes clear why the Samsung
Galaxy S5 is the phone of choice, offering a host of possibilities to its users

Those
that have chosen the Samsung Galaxy S5 experience will definitely be getting
best of both worlds in this smartphone that doubles as personal smartphone that
wears a suit! It’s no surprise that Samsung Galaxy S5 users have caught on to
this smart device since it’s unveiling. Its customer-driven response is marked
by Samsung’s impeccable attention to detail.

With
dimensionsof142 x 72.5 x 8.1 mm,
the Galaxy S5 is svelte and slim. It fits perfectly in the palm of your
hands. Modern, sophisticated and
boasting one of the sleekest and freshest designs you’ll ever get your hands
on, its Super AMOLED Full HD 5´1” screen is great for watching videos and apps
in extraordinary quality.

Textured
with tiny perforations, the phone’s back panel not only gives it that unique
look that sets it apart from others but also makes for greater comfort in the
user’s grip. Choose from any of our four
eye-catching colours:

1.Black
and white

2.Blue

3.Electric
Gold

Despite
these fancy accouterments, its IP67 certification means your Samsung Galaxy S5
will be safe from Water and Dust, making it virtually impervious to the
elements.

The
unbeatable 16 Megapixel Camera with built-in auto-focus that snaps into shape in
a mere 0.3 seconds makes the Samsung S5, hands down, the world’s fastest camera
on a mobile device. But it doesn’t end there!
Selective Focus is an interesting feature of this powerful Camera; you
keep the point of focus only in that part of the image that you want while
blurring the rest. At no point do you leave the HDR mode integrated into the
camera’s software that helps you improve the lighting in your treasured photos
and videos.

Still,
you’ve gotta keep your Business and Personal lives separate. Samsung
understands. That’s why they’ve build a fingerprint scanner that doubles as you
ID for unblocking your smartphone and making Mobile payments. After all, no one
can steal your Biometric Identity and your fingerprint is as secure as it gets.

An
even deeper side to its security is that it can easily slip into theKids Mode that’s a sandbox for them to
play. Samsung Galaxy S5 has adapted a kid-centric user interface the user
interface loaded with entertaining and educational games.

And
as if that’s not enough, SamsungGalaxy
S5 Emergency Mode can help you if your being kidnapped. Should the unfortunate
situation befall you and you feel in danger, at the push of button, it will transmit
a help message to your emergency contacts structured as follows:

The
new Samsung Galaxy S5 comes fully loaded with features to help you stay at your
fittest. If health and wellness are your
priorities, then you’re in good hands with the Samsung Galaxy S5’s enhanced 3.0
S Health Tool:

1.Podometer

2.Diet

3.Exercise
records

4.Heart
rate monitor

The
Fitness Tracker helps you follow-up on your routine while you monitor and
manage your every step to achieving your wellness goals. With tools like the
3.0 S Health Tool Samsung Galaxy S5 is sure to become your best ally as you get
to your wellness goals.

And
it’s fast on Wireless Broadband Internet too! It’s compatible with 5th
generation 802.11ac Wi-Fi, 2x2 MIMO and a standard category 4 LTE. MIMO lets you combine your Wi-Fi connections
for faster data transfer. The most impressive feature is the built-in Download
Booster technology which allows you to use 4G LTE and Wi-Fi, boosting Internet
performance online. Overall, the Samsung Galaxy S5 caters fully to the needs of
the user with faster and more efficient connectivity.

It
does this by deactivating less essential apps and just dealing with Calls and
Text Messages. The Samsung Galaxy then puts on a Suite and Tie in a Black and
White Affair on screen, reducing power consumption and resulting in an
incredible additional 10 hours of Internet surfing and 12 hours of video
playback!

With
a long and proven history of innovation, Samsung delivers yet again to its
customers, setting itself apart as leaders in technology. Like what you see
here?

It’s
not shaping up to be a good year for either Samsung or Apple as both are seeing
declines in the Second Quarter of 2014. This as their competitor, mostly Asian
based smartphone makers such as Huawei, Lenovo and LG Electronics are recording
record-breaking numbers according to the figures presented by IDC in the
article “Chinese
phone makers gain amid smartphone surge”, published July 29, 2014 11:40 AM
PDT by Rachel King, CNET News.

Take
a gander at the IDC Stats Table below and it all becomes clear when the Second
Quarter of 2013 is compared to the Second Quarter of 2014:

Huawei,
Lenovo and LG Electronics are all seeing growth in shipments while shipment has
declined slightly for Samsung. Huawei’s shipments have even doubled from 10.4
million in the Second Quarter of 2013 to 20.3 million in Second Quarter of
2014. Apple's shipments are up for the first time this year but like Samsung,
their marketshare is declining even as their competition’s marketshare is
inching forward.

Clearly
the cheaper smartphones being made by Huawei, who'd practically double their
shipments, means that they're on their way to becoming the Smartphone of
choice. With IDC cautioning explosive quarterly growth, collectively Asian
Smartphone makers have still managed to sweeten the expectations of analysts by
pointing to the smartphone makers collectively cracking the 300-million-unit
mark during the Third Quarter of 2014.

Here
in Jamaica, we don't have to be told this, as it's become obvious which
smartphone is the clear winner on specs and choice. This is already becoming a
summer of the Huawei Ascend Y330 smartphone in Jamaica.

It features Apps that
will allow greater customization of mobile devices, and will also function as a
Platform to offer various promotions and discounts. If you’re online on your
Desktop or Laptop right now, check out the Samsung
Content and Services Page for the Samsung
GALAXYApps.

Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd is no
stranger to innovation and is a global leader in technology, opening new
possibilities for people everywhere. They’re well known for their products in
the worlds of TVs, smartphones, tablets, PCs, cameras, home appliances,
printers, LTE systems, medical devices, semiconductors and LED solutions. With
some 286,000 people across 80 countries and racking up annual sales of US$216.7
billion, they’re on a path towards achieving Global dominance in their various
fields.

Samsung GALAXYApps is an extension of that
ambition to quote WonPyo Hong, President of the Media Solution Center at
Samsung Electronics: “At Samsung, we continuously strive to create value for
our customers by providing differentiated solutions and services coupled with
innovative devices. Samsung GALAXYApps is
an extension of that promise, as it offers our customers exclusive Apps to
enrich their experience.”

Best of all, Developers
can partake of Samsung’s newly revamped App Store by becoming developers of
Apps Specific to the App store. Samsung
GALAXYApps will eventually be available to over 130 million users across
161 countries around the world.

Tuesday, July 29, 2014

“We
wanted to get it in and piloted before our Customer Information System upgrade.
We will be able to roll it out after the pilot, we think in the fourth quarter
islandwide. We are excited for customer”

CEO of JPS Co (Jamaica
Public Service Company) Kelly Tomblin commenting on plans to implement Prepaid Power
in Jamaica

All
controllable via a Digital Smart meter whose usage you can gauge via an App on
your smartphone or query via SMS (Short Messaging Service) or Text Messaging.
Prepaid Power would basically be configured like Prepaid Data Plans as used by
Telecom Providers and would be broken down into four possible services:

Then
the customer would pay a Flat Rate Power Service Plan instead of a 1 Day, 7
Day, 14 Day or 30 Day Power Services Plan. That Flat Rate Power Service Plan covers
both the loan repayment for the SolarMill as well as Billing for usage.

It
wouldn’t be surprising to see JPS Co go this route of Flat Rate Power Service
Plan to BOTH sell both WindStream
Technologies SolarMill Technology

All
in a bid to provide a service and be paid for said service, which is the production and Distribution of Electricity,
be it generated or from Alternative Energy Sources. Stay tuned as mode Details
come to light!

“In
the face of this year's wheat crop losses, and worries over the impact on
prices for consumers, this breakthrough in our understanding of the bread wheat
genome could not have come at a better time. This modern strategy is a key
component to supporting food security and gives breeders the tools to produce
more robust varieties with higher yields”

BBSRC (Biotechnology
and Biological Sciences Research Council) Chief Executive Professor Douglas
Kell of the University of Liverpool on the decoding of the Chinese Spring Wheat
(Triticum aestivum L.)Genome

After
nearly four (4) years of Research a Team at BBSRC (Biotechnology and Biological
Sciences Research Council) led by Professor Douglas Kell of the University of
Liverpool and has finally cracked the
Bread Wheat Genome as reported in “Genetic
blueprint for wheat deciphered”, published Saturday, July 19, 2014, The Jamaica Observer.

The
Bread Wheat, also known as the Chinese Spring Wheat (Triticum aestivum L.), has aGenome
that consists of some 20 Chromosomes located inside of the nucleus of each cell.
These Chromosomes which are composed of DNA (Deoxyribonucleic Acid) are in turn
composed of sequences of three bases composed of combinations of Adenine (A),
Guanine (G), Cytosine (C) or Thiamine (T) called Codons.

Each
Codon represents an Amino Acid that makes up a protein molecule and specific
sequences of Codons representing a Protein are called Genes. Amazingly, for
such a simple organism, the Chinese Spring Wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) has a Genome that’s five (5) times the size
of the Human Genome, due to the fact that it’s a grass that was bred by humans
to be edible by cross-breeding with other edible grasses.

According
to their publication in the Journal Nature, there is a total of 124,000 Genes,
representing 124,000 proteins that were located by the BBSRC Team, but only
90,000 of those Genes were sequence:

The
Genome Sequencing Study was led by Professor Douglas Kell of the University of
Liverpool and co-authored by Dr Anthony Hall, from the University Institute of
Integrative Biology. It coincides rather neatly with a French Research Team
announcing recently they'd mapped a complete Bread Wheat Chromosome, known as
3B. This leaves that Research Team
with a long journey ahead of them, as they have some 20 more Chromosomes to
decipher in order to completely decode the Genome of Bread Wheat.

Their
four year quest was funded by the BBSRC (Biotechnology and Biological Sciences
Research Council) of which Professor Douglas Kell of the University of
Liverpool is Chief Executive. His team pooled their efforts and resources with
the following Universities and Institutes:

1.Institute
of Bioinformatics and Systems Biology in Germany

2.Cold
Spring Harbor Laboratory in the USA

3.University
of California in the USA

4.University
of Bristol in the UK

5.University
Institute of Integrative Biology in the UK

Researchers
focused on a cultivated wheat variety known as Chinese Spring Wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) and have decoded
90,000 of the 124,000 Genes that make up the Wheat Genome. This, published in
the Journal Nature, is a landmark discovery and is of greatest significance to
the Agriculture Sciences World as Wheat is the World's third biggest crop after
maize and rice.

Professor Kell’s Wheat –
Started from the Bottom of the Wheat Field Now we here

Four
years?

Back
in 2010, Professor Douglas Kell of the University of Liverpool, who was then
head of the Britain's Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council
(BBSRC) announced they’re cracked the Wheat Genome as stated in “Scientists:
We've Cracked Wheat's Genetic Code”, published Aug. 27, 2010 | 11:08 a.m. EDT, Associated Press.

I
suspect that this discovery differs because of the variety of Wheat whose Genome
was sequenced, that being the Chinese Spring Wheat (Triticum aestivum L.). Additionally, it’s also the method used to
sequence the Chinese Spring Wheat (Triticum
aestivum L.) Genome.

So
how did they do it?

They
realized that the different families of Wheat were related to each other and to
similar Food Grasses with simpler Genomes such as Rice and Barley and some of
its ancestors, which had long ago been decoded using conventional Genome Sequencing
Methods as explained in “Scientists
decipher Genetic code of wheat” published 28 November 2012, ScienceDaily.

The
Team hypothesized that the more advanced Grasses such as Wheat not only were
complex and thus had more Genomes, but shared the same Chromosomes and even
Genes with these predecessors to who them they were related but just happened
to still be around. Evolution mean that they're all related, just slightly
differentiated from their common Grass Ancestor.

Knowing
the complete Genome of those Grasses, they simply just used a special algorithm
developed by the John Innes Centre to do a count of the total number of Chromosomes
in each Genome and the location of the Genes within each Chromosome. Then
they’d look for Genetic markers that were similar for each Gene making up the Chromosome
within the Chinese Spring Wheat (Triticum
aestivum L.) Genome to those in Rice and Barley and earlier grasses.

They
did the comparison against Genome Databases provided by the Institute of
Bioinformatics and Systems Biology in Germany and Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
and the University of California in the US. The unidentified Chromosomes within
the Wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) Genome
was then sequenced using the conventional Genome Sequencing methods, thus
greatly speeding up the process.

Because
many persons have done it before, you don't need to start from ground zero and
design the smartphone or airplane; you just use the blueprints for a simpler
model and add to the design, as Airbus had done. Simple as that!

By
identifying the differences in the Genomes of Chinese Spring Wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) to that Rice and
Barley and some of its ancestors, they were able to not only quickly sequence
the complex Wheat Genome, but separate the known Genes within the Chromosomes
and determine the Genes and their known genotype and phenotype. Thus, their map
wasn’t just a listing of Genomes for the purpose of bragging of the academic
triumph of sequencing a plant that was heretofore difficult. It had straight-out-the-Lab practical
applications to Crop Breeders as well.

They
could use the information to identify features of other hardier Grasses and
thus cross-breed them with the Chinese Spring Wheat (Triticum aestivum L.), either in the field over several Generations
or via companies using Laboratory techniques to create the desired traits
required to make Chinese Spring Wheat (Triticum
aestivum L.) more suited to surviving various environments.

This
technique can lead to the sequencing of even more complex Grasses, such as
Sugar Cane, as suggested by the rather upbeat Professor Neil Hall from the
University's Institute of Integrative Biology, who apparently is trying to get
a photo-op here, quote: “Wheat is a large and complex genome; arguably the most
complex genome to be sequenced to date. Although the genome has not been fully
decoded, we now have instrumentation that can read DNA hundreds of times faster
than the systems that were used to sequence the human genome. This technology
can now be applied to other Genomes previously considered to be too difficult
for detailed Genetic study, such as sugar cane, an important biofuel crop”.

That
means in the near future, companies that specialize in making GMO (Generically
Modified Organisms) from this information such as Monsanto, can make varieties
of Chinese Spring Wheat (Triticum
aestivum L.) that can grow in virtual any climate Region of the World under
various conditions i.e. high Temperature, extreme dryness, extreme sunlight,
etc.

Possessing
this knowledge also means that we can a means of staving off Global Hunger by
being able to produce varieties of a plant that's a staple of 30% of the World's
population. It's also used to make the most common of foods, that being Flour,
which is used to make Bread and thus is literally our #BreadandButter. Its
significance wasn’t lost upon co-chair of the IWGSC (International Wheat Genome
Sequencing Consortium) Catherine Feuillet, quote: “We have reached a great
milestone in our roadmap”.

With
our World population projected to reach some 9 billion by 2050. Wheat
Production has been falling globally by some 5.5% from 2000 to 2008 due to
Climate Change, according to a study in the journal Science by researchers at
the IWGSC. Having the ability to modify
wheat to grow anywhere, even in the Desert, will be a priority going forward!